Grande Ronde Model Watershed

This newest edition of our newsletter🗞️Ripples in the Grande Ronde, has been released!

Articles in this issue: A Decade of Renewal: Southern Cross Habitat Restoration Turns 10, Elmer Dam Fish Passage and Flow Improvement Project, and NE Oregon Steelhead Dissection Program.

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As always, thank you for your readership and be sure to keep an eye out for our next edition coming this Fall.
https://grmw.org/static/documents/ripples/2026/Ripples_WinterSpring2026.pdf

Our Wallowa County Project Coordinator, Kelly Hendrix, attended this year's annual Oregon Connect Conservation Conference 🤝. This is a large meeting connecting watersheds, soil and water conservation districts, and land management professionals👷 from all over Oregon to share knowledge and expertise concerning both the technical and administrative side of conservation🌿. One of the activities associated with the event was a beach cleanup effort. Kelly was kind enough to snap a few photos from the conference and the beach 🏖️ to share. Thank you, Kelly!

We heard 2016 was trending… a lot has changed in ten years. Check out the transformation of the Catherine Creek Southern Cross habitat restoration project. Then 👉 Now!

FYI for everyone this Saturday @ Heritage Pond!

Excited about this! Rosehip jam, wild tea, art, shifts in perspective, community science - all on a winter walk.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at the Grande Ronde Model Watershed!

FYI:
Our office in La Grande will be closed: Dec. 24th - 28th and Jan. 1st & 2nd
Our Enterprise office will be closed: Dec. 22nd-26th and Jan. 1st & 2nd.

Our normal schedule will resume on Jan 5th, 2026. Thank you!

If you missed Giving Tuesday last week, it's still not too late to support your local watershed.

Swing by our office location in La Grande and purchase some of our awesome merchandise 👕! We have a variety of colors, styles, logos, and sizes as well as our NEW redesigned retro-logo from our early days! Bundle up for winter with one of our beanies and/or sweatshirts. Still don't know what to get a family member or friend for Christmas? Our hats are one-size-fits-all and make great gifts! 🎁🎄

Have questions about our merch? 👝Email [email protected] or message us through our FB page!

🕗Normal Office Hours:
M-Th: 8:00am - 5:00pm
Fri: 8:00am - Noon
Sat-Sun: Closed

Last month on November 18th &19th, we hosted our annual State of the Science Meeting🔬. We are pleased to announce the success of this event and want to wholeheartedly thank each and every person who attended. We specifically want to thank our great speakers for presenting on a wide range of topics regarding native fish 🐟, our rivers/streams/lakes 🏞️, the rich history of the Grande Ronde basin 📖, and more. We had 78+ attendees overall this year and we will be providing a link to our YouTube channel soon where you can view all of the presentations in their full format. So subscribe to us here on Facebook or on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/granderonde.mw/) if you want to know more, keep in touch with us for next year, or if you weren't able to make it to the event this year, but still want to hear what all of our wonderful presenters had to say 📣. Again, from all of us here at the Grande Ronde Model Watershed, thank you, and we hope to see you all again next year!

It is once again time for our annual State of the Science Meeting. We have a great lineup of presenters this year. This meeting brings together researchers and implementers from all over the state (and beyond) to share their knowledge and experience. We host this event every year in hopes to further our understanding of these complex issues. This event is open to the public for anyone who wishes to attend. The agenda for this event is located on our website: grmw.org.

WHERE: The Friendship Center, 1204 Spring Ave, La Grande, OR
WHEN: November 18th @ 8am-4:30pm & November 19th @ 8am - 12pm

Good News! The Summer-Fall Issue of Ripples in the Grande Ronde has arrived! 🗞

We have a great issue of Ripples💦 lined up for you all and we want to start off by saying that we really do appreciate everyone who reads our newsletter. We fund Ripples because we see the incredible value in getting information out to the local community about the important work going on in our area. The articles in our newsletter are written by people who truly love our watershed and the place we all call home. We want this to reach as many people as possible, so we encourage you to share it with your friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, and anyone else you can think of who might read it.

This time we have several important headlines: 🐦‍⬛Double-crested Cormorants and Their Impacts on Fish Populations in the Pacific Northwest: A Case Study from the Grande Ronde Valley, 🏡The Lostine Town Project Story, and👷Meet Kelly Hendrix (the GRMW's new Wallowa County Project Coordinator).



CHECK OUT RIPPLES IN THE GRANDE RONDE HERE:https://grmw.org/static/documents/ripples/2025/RipplesSummerFall_2025.pdf

Hey everyone, have you heard of Wild Hope? It’s a new
series from Wild & Scenic Film Festival partner HHMI Tangled Bank
Studios.

At our upcoming event on November 7th @ HQ in La Grande,
we will be screening one of their films: "A Farm Goes Wild."
For years, Derek Gow worked his 400-acres in western England as a conventional sheep and cattle farm. Watch this latest WildHope episode to see how he’s rewilding his land to what it once was: a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem. We hope you will join us for the event. Thank you HHMI Tangled Bank Studios for creating such great content and supporting the Wild & Scenic Film Festival

Get your tickets for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wild-scenic-film-festival-tickets-1632918395879

https://www.tangledbankstudios.org/
https://www.wildhope.tv/

Catch a glimpse of one of the films featured at this year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival! 🎞️ Join us on November 7th @ HQ in La Grande for a night of adventure, beauty, and inspiration. 🌍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niSvADFFCSE

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wild-scenic-film-festival-tickets-1632918395879

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